Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact C electric • 20 instructional videos available

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Francisco Villatoro

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Neil Anderson

Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact C electric • 20 instructional videos availableThis book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while elsewhere we find clusters of very small families or language isolates? What roles have agriculture, geography, climate, ethnic identity, and language ideologies played in language spread? In this volume, international experts in the field provide new answers to these